Talk:African Reference Alphabet

Nasalization on Wikipedia

I'm working on articles around the Gbe languages. These languages all have phonemic nasalized vowels, and the standard orthography for writing these is adding a tilde above the vowel. I can't find the e+tilde in Wikipedia:Special Characters, however. A workaround or solution might be the one already used at, for example Fon: that is, indicate nasalization on the vowel by writing a nasal after the vowel. Anyone suggestions? strangeloop 13:13, 16 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Never mind. Use ẽ, thank Lee. strangeloop 19:37, 16 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Miscellany

"in quite some orthographies" : the meaning of this is obscure. Someone who knows the topic should rephrase. Matt Whyndham 12:16, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

Links with IPA

One still hears reference to African language orthographies that use characters present in IPA as "IPA orthographies" in apparent ignorance of the process of developing the African reference alphabet. The links should be made more clear - that the latter (and predecessors) in effect borrowed selected IPA characters, and that in turn is reflected in various African language alphabets.--A12n (talk) 18:43, 8 January 2015 (UTC)

Ok

Ghys, "ɴ" isn'o a tiide. Thanks. (Guys, "ɴ" isn't a tilde. Thanks.) UniformMilk192 (talk) 18:23, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

It is a tilde and designed as such, see Mann/Dalby p. 210 (included as a reference in the article). -- Karl432 (talk) 23:42, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

Not really "defunct"

There has to be a better way to introduce the topic. In a way, the Niamey conference went further than the Bamako one in 1966, and some of its recommendations were not adopted. However, the general work at Bamako and Niamey, as well as more localized conferences (at least some of which were also facilitated by UNESCO) during this period, have had lasting impact on the form of Latin-based orthographies for languages of the region. --A12n (talk) 18:00, 2 November 2025 (UTC)